Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Prospect East, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Prospect East
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94314, -8.20436
- SMR number
- TN014-018----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the slight SW-facing slope of a ridge in meadow. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map but not indicated on the subsequent 1901-5 ed. suggesting that the site was levelled in the nineteenth century. It shows up clearly as a circular cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in 1970 (CUCAP, BDL 78). Not visible at ground level.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.